Friedrich Wilhelm August Mullach
Friedrich Wilhelm August Mullach (Latin: Fridericus Guilelmus Augustus Mullachius; 1807–1882) was a German philologist and Byzantine scholar.
Life[]
He was born on January 1, 1807, in Berlin. He taught history and philology at Berlin University.[1] He died on June 8, 1882, in Berlin.
Legacy[]
His was the first comprehensive collection of the Pre-Socratics. His Grammar of the Greek Vernacular was the standard late 19th-century work on the development of modern Greek.[2] However, Nietzsche, who argued that Democritus's legitimate works should be limited to and , the only two considered genuine by the Byzantine Suda, felt Mullach was "a negligent blockhead".[3]
Works[]
Mullach is best remembered for his Fragmenta Philosophorum Graecorum (Fragments of the Greek Philosophers), published by the Didots at Paris between 1860 and 1881.
He also wrote or edited:
- Quaestionum Democritearum specimen, Berlin, 1835. (in Latin)
- Demetrii Zeni Paraphrasis Batrachomyomachiae vulgari Graecorum sermone scripta, Berlin, 1837. (in Latin)
- Grammaire latine à l'usage des classes inférieures et moyennes du Collège Royal Français, Berlin, 1841. (in French)
- Quaestionum Democritearum specimen secundum, Berlin, 1842. (in Latin)
- Democriti Abderitae operum fragment, Berlin, 1843; 2nd ed., 1860. (in Latin)
- Aristotelis de Melisso, Xenophane et Gorgia disputationes, Berlin, 1845. (in Latin)
- Disputatio de Empedoclis prooemio, Berlin, 1850. (in Latin)
- Coniectaneorum Byzantinorum libri duo, Berlin, 1852. (in Latin)
- Hieroclis in aureum Pythagoreorum carmen commentarius, Berlin, 1853. (in Latin)
- Quaestionum Empedoclearum specimen secundum, Berlin, 1853. (in Latin)
- Grammatik der griechischen Vulgarsprache in historischer Entwicklung [Grammar of the Greek Vernacular in Its Historical Development], Berlin, 1856. (in German) & (in Greek)
References[]
- ^ Ziethen, G. (June 2013), "A Young Scholar in a Hurry: The Promotion and Academic Life of Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff (1837–1918) in 1858" (PDF), Manuscripta Orientalia, XIX, p. 52.
- ^ Finlay, George (1877), A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B.C. 146 to A.D. 1864, Vol. IV: Mediaeval Greece and the Empire of Trebizond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 5, ISBN 9781108078368.
- ^ Porter, James I. (2000), Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future, Stanford: Stanford University Press, p. 38, ISBN 9780804736985.
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- 1807 births
- 1882 deaths